Post AxXDrpxYC9TufwpHQ8 by Neo_ainmichte@calckey.world
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 (DIR) Post #AxXDroU5gCK26I2ErY by david_chisnall@infosec.exchange
       2025-08-25T09:06:03Z
       
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       I still don’t understand why the default #Mastodon post size is small. I see posts where instances have increased the limit and they show up nicely folded with a ‘read more’ link to expand them. In contrast, people on instances with smaller limits post 1/n things. These are terrible UI:The user has to post the 1/n thing by hand.The posts all show up in my feed, no way of easily skipping them (in contrast, large posts are easy to fold away).The posts show up in reverse order so I see the thread backwards. I end up scrolling to 12/12 and then clicking on it to go backwards.The threads are not posted atomically and so they’re interleaved with others and I sometimes miss interesting posts.Fetching multiple small posts requires a lot more ActivityPub traffic and more server load than fetching a single larger post. Not really a UI problem, but it has a knock-on effect.The small post limit doesn’t make people favour brevity, it makes people post long thoughts in a less readable way. The constraint of having to fit a tweet and a username in a single SMS message never applied here, we don’t need to copy bad UI that arose from legacy technical limitations.Please, please, please make the default post limit something sensible. And, until then, instance operators, please set sensible limits yourselves. I am very happy that infosec.exchange has an 11K limit. If I had posted this somewhere with the default config, it would have needed to be split over four toots. Do you thing that would have improved your experience reading it?EDIT: If you think splitting this would have made it easier to read, please add a comment explaining why. I’m genuinely curious.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxXDrpxYC9TufwpHQ8 by Neo_ainmichte@calckey.world
       2025-08-25T17:17:34.172Z
       
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       There are other instances with better Fediverse software out there.@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange